Robin Uchida, Teacher, philosopher, education, leadership values, Community

Visualization can be learned on the street with any camera of your choice. It requires a dedication to continually seeing something that was not in your normal viewing area. Once you begin to be visually acute then the world will open to you in a complete simple way of seeing. Joel Meyorwitz is a great example of a photographer who see's with intensity and clarity. He indicates that it is not what you shoot but what who or what else is in the frame. There can be a sign or anything that ads to the photo. Something that may be oposite of the subject shows somewhere and is as important. A color or just another item juxtaposed in a different place. I am always learning from his example as street photos have his mark of excellence. The trick is not to seek perfection but to try and open up the viewing field around you. I think the metaphor is seeing wth eyes in the back of your head might explain it. I have one friend who you might look up and he is on Flickr. HHis name is David Wyman. If you can locate David he has an uncanny way of always finding objects that no one else sees. He has trained his brain and his eyes to go to the source of interest, in a way that represents a true graphic story in one photo. Its remarkable and he is always surprisingly perfect. I can walk down the street after a gallery show and walk bye a photo that he himself is all of a sudden snapping away. I stop to scratch my head, in amazement, Its remarkable to watch this person shooting. There are thousand of subjects when you are in a busy place and one needs to look for something that can best be represented as a unique photo.

Jim Allen